Politics Quotes

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Architecture is politics.

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.